“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

[...] You are not being treated like merchandise at Prentice, whatever Prentice’s faults might be, and you would be treated like merchandise by the high-powered agent, who would consider you a fine property, and expect you to act accordingly.

[...] I think I got off on that tack because I was concerned about getting money that Prentice had withheld against returns. [...]

[...] The Christmas tree and all the decorations have been dismantled; the house is cleaned to some extent, and the copyedited version of Volume 2 of “Unknown” Reality has been returned to Prentice-Hall. [...]

[...] Even today, the day after this deleted session was held, I received a call from Tam at Prentice-Hall, wanting to know about cutting the length of the book. [...]

[...] Frank was doing construction on the porches then, too, and I was worried about the Gallery-of-Silence people bugging Prentice and me. [...]

(Last Thursday, Jane and I received from Prentice-Hall our first copies of the German translation of Seth Speaks. Prentice-Hall authorized this venture by a foreign publisher well over a year ago, but we didn’t know just when we’d see books within the two-year limit set for publication. [...]

[...] Jane has withdrawn Emir from consideration at Prentice-Hall, and in back of that decision lies a story too complicated to recite in detail here. Tam’s letter of today catalyzed her action, however, when he told her that Prentice-Hall had decided to publish Emir through the children’s department. [...]

(“What do you think of Prentice’s reaction to the Emir thing?”)

(At 8:55 PM Jane had the impression of the name, Alice Prentice, as that of the deceased high-school classmate of mine, who was now dead, that I had helped astrally. [...] I thought the name Alice familiar, but couldn’t help out re Prentice. [...]

[...] A last name like Prince, with an S initial, or like Prentice. [...]

[...] She now amazed me by saying that she now thought she understood that if she turned her focus away from her symptoms toward Prentice, say, or any other “outside” entity or situation, that she could improve physically by giving her body the freedom to do so. [...]

(Ethel, incidentally, told Jane that she too has trouble communicating with Prentice’s legal department, just as it seems everyone else does.

[...] “It’s got to do with understanding that one must protect or encourage personal integrity before anything else,” I said, “even if it means projecting one’s troubles out onto an entity like Prentice, the church, or whatever. [...]

[...] His work, as you know, is highly important to him, and Tam is the representative, in terms of Prentice. [...]

[...] You have accepted certain impediments of a normal nature, Ruburt’s health difficulties, your problems with chores versus work, or hassles with Prentice—because you believe that in some strange fashion these connect you with others of your kind, and with physical existence itself.

[...] The worry about Seven however was important, and the call today of benefit (to Prentice-Hall)—as the production of this book (The “Unknown” Reality) will be.

[...] I was of course especially angry that they were world renowned while I thought Jane’s great abilities were largely unappreciated and ill paid for by Prentice, Bantam, etc. The recent sale of Oversoul Seven to an English publishing house for an unbelievable $100, and Prentice’s recent notice to us of a possible sale of Seth Speaks for translation and publishing by a German house for only $300 bothered me greatly; I just couldn’t believe that so little money was available in Europe, no matter what Prentice told us. [...]

[...] If you play those games and do poorly, you at least have a right to shout “foul” now and then—and I will tell you something: Prentice looks out for your interests in the person of John (Nelson) far more than you give him credit for. [...]

[...] “I wasn’t going to ask this tonight, but earlier today I found myself wondering how much of Jane’s symptoms result from my own attitudes and statements about Prentice. [...]

(I thought Seth’s brief answer to my question merely reinforced my suspicion that my attitudes toward Prentice had unduly influenced Jane. [...]

Your own attitudes, for example — and beliefs — about foreigners, Prentice-Hall, people’s stupidity and lack of integrity, put you in correspondence with those same beliefs on the part of others, resulting in the translation fiasco.¹ An entirely different kind of behavior could have been elicited from those same people. [...]

1. In October 1979 Jane and I saw, to our dismay, that the Dutch publisher of the translation of Seth Speaks had violated his contract with Prentice-Hall by making many unauthorized cuts in the book. [...]

[...] Now when you act, as when at various times you encountered Prentice with definite complaints, or requests, there you were making a positive response to a specific condition, with good results.

When you brooded about past errors, criticizing Prentice in your mind for past and future errors, you were reacting to implied threats of a kind. [...]

(Recently Jane sent her dream book to Prentice-Hall. [...]

[...] (Her eyes open, Jane picked up the letter from Prentice-Hall briefly.) This is the direction toward which you should move. [...]

(Again Jane picked up the letter from Prentice-Hall.) The material in the dream book should be utilized here.

(I’d just gotten yesterday’s mail sorted out this morning when another, lesser batch arrived today, both from Prentice-Hall and independently.

(Tonight we started the sessions up again after a three-month layoff: During that time I typed the final manuscript for Volume I of Seth’s “Unknown” Reality, with Jane’s help, and we’ve just mailed it to her publisher, Prentice-Hall, Inc. [...]

(Seth opened the session by finishing his Introduction to Jane’s The World View of Paul Cézanne, which Prentice-Hall will publish later this year. [...]

Last Thursday a letter from Prentice-Hall, suggesting that the Dream Manuscript be converted, sort of, into a book dealing with The Seth Material. [...]

Particularly in the beginning, for all of your joint complaints about Prentice, Prentice was innovative. [...]

[...] Our attitudes re Prentice. [...]

It will involve all levels of your realities, and include also your business dealings, your joint attitudes toward Prentice, the reasons for them, and the new framework in which you will be working.

Prentice represented, to you (me), the world you had to protect yourself from, and be on guard against in the business world that had never understood your father—the unartistic, ever out to ruin the artistic product through ignorance, and lack of sensitivity.